Strategic Language Learning : : The Roles of Agency and Context / / Xuesong (Andy) Gao.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Gao, Xuesong (Andy),
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Second Language Acquisition
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Figures and Tables --; Acknowledgements --; Chapter 1. Introduction --; Chapter 2. Towards a Sociocultural Perspective on Strategic Learning --; Chapter 3. Mainland Chinese Students’ Migration to Hong Kong --; Chapter 4. On the Chinese Mainland --; Chapter 5. Learning English in Hong Kong --; Chapter 6. Four Case Studies --; Chapter 7. Agency and Context in Strategic Learning --; Appendix 1: Interview Guide for the Arriving Mainland Chinese Undergraduates --; Appendix 2: The Exit Interview Guide for Mainland Chinese Undergraduates --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781847692450; 9783111024738; 9783110663136; 9783110606713
• DOI: 10.21832/9781847692450
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Xuesong (Andy) Gao.

This monograph reports on a longitudinal inquiry into mainland Chinese undergraduates’ language learning experiences in an English medium university in a multilingual setting with a focus on their strategic language learning efforts. This book examines the issue as to what extent language learners’ strategic learning efforts depend on their ‘choice’, if ‘the element of choice’ is the defining characteristic of language learners’ strategic learning behaviour. The inquiry, using a qualitative and ethnographic research approach, reveals dynamic interaction between learners’ agency and contextual conditions underlying the participants’ strategic learning process. Such understanding informs pedagogical efforts to foster individual learners’ capacity for strategic learning and their capacities in opening up and sustaining a social learning space for exercising their strategic learning capacity or utilizing their strategic learning knowledge.